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Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd (MPEL): Today's Featured Leisure Winner

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Melco Crown Entertainment (
MPEL) pushed the Leisure industry higher today making it today's featured leisure winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.5%. By the end of trading, Melco Crown Entertainment rose 33 cents (2.2%) to $15.13 on average volume. Throughout the day, 5.5 million shares of Melco Crown Entertainment exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.3 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $14.93-$15.41 after having opened the day at $15 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $14.80. Other companies within the Leisure industry that increased today were:
Good Times Restaurants (
GTIM), up 40.5%,
Gaylord Entertainment (
GET), up 9.3%,
Ryman Hospitality Properties (
RHP), up 9.3%, and
Century Casinos (
CNTY), up 6.3%.

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Melco Crown Entertainment Limited, through its subsidiaries, engages in the development, ownership, and operation of casino gaming and entertainment resort facilities primarily in Macau. Melco Crown Entertainment has a market cap of $7.89 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 26.2, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 53.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Melco Crown Entertainment a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and none rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Melco Crown Entertainment as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, reasonable valuation levels and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.